AP World History Civilizations Flashcards

4856888040	MFeatures of civilization	Advanced civilizations, advanced technology, complex institutions, specialized workers, record keeping	0
4856888041	Venus figures	Futility figures, size equals wealth	1
4856888042	Ancient Mesopotamia is located wher	Fertile crescent between tigris and euphrates rivers	2
4856888043	Ancient Mesopotamia had what	City states	3
4856888044	What is a city state	A city and its surrounding country side	4
4856888045	Sedentary agriculture led to what	Property, laws, government, social stratification, gender inequalities, formal religion, population growth.	5
4856888046	What was the government like in Mesopotamia	Early on it was a theocracy, where the priest king would govern a city state, later on they had kings	6
4856888047	When did the summaries begin	3500 BCE	7
4856888048	City states evolved into	empires	8
4856888049	Empire is	expansion, conquest, multiregional, EMPIRES ALWAYS FALL	9
4856888050	Hammurabis code was developed when	c.1800 BCE	10
4856888051	Summaries developed the first civilization where	Mesopotamia	11
4856888052	Sumerians created the first advanced	society	12
4856888053	How did religion effect sumarian culture	Yes, religion played a huge role in culture	13
4856888054	What did summaries believe	That there was over 3,000 gods and that they had to appease the gods to prevent natural disasters	14
4856888055	Usually art and literature focused on what in sumar	The gods	15
4856888056	What did the summariens build to worship their gods	ziggurats	16
4856888057	Was summer socially stratified	Yes	17
4856888058	Was slavery common in sumur if it was what type of slave did they have	Yes, the had classical slaves	18
4856888059	What is classical slaves	They are temporary slaves	19
4856888060	Were the sumarians patriarchal, and what rights did women have	Yes, women could hold occupations	20
4856888061	What is some inventions that have come from sumar	Wheel, plow, sail, metallurgy, cuniform, and a system of numbers	21
4856888062	What is cuniform	A early system of writing	22
4856888063	Ancient Egypt was relatively	Isolated	23
4856888064	What did the nile provide for Egypt	Transportation, water, silt	24
4856888065	How did Egypt control the nile	They controlled the nile by making canals and dams	25
4856888066	What are the two parts of egypt	Lower Egypt = north Upper Egypt = south	26
4856888067	Menes	First Egyptian King, he unified lower and upper egypt.	27
4856888068	When was the Egyptian government formed	In 3000 BCE	28
4856888069	How is Egypt's history split up	Old kingdom, middle kingdom, and new kingdom	29
4856888070	The Egyptian government was a	Theocracy	30
4856888071	Could women be pharaohs	Yes	31
4856888072	What was the religion in Egypt	Polytheistic, gods had human and animal qualities, beleived in afterlife.	32
4856888073	What did Egypt do to its dead	They mummified them	33
4856888074	What were pyramids used for	Pharaoh's tombs	34
4856888075	Was it society stratified in Egypt	Yes	35
4856888076	Was it hard to move up class in Egypt	Yes	36
4856888077	Did women have more rights in Egypt than most places in the ancient world, if so what could they do	Yes- divorce, own property, propose marriage	37
4856888078	What were some inventions that the ancient Egyptions had	- Hyrogliphics on papyrus, mathematics/geometry, calender system (with 365 days)	38
4856888079	When did cities emerge in the indus driver valley	2500 BCE	39
4856888080	Were the city states unified in the indus river valley	Yes, they were culturally unified	40
4856888081	Theory as to why indus river civilization disipears	Environmental disaster, vs arian invasion	41
4856888082	How was the indus valley religion	Polytheistic, later influence hinduism	42
4856888083	How was the indus river civilization cities planned	Very well, had plumbing system	43
4856888084	Indus river valley wrighting system	Undescypherable	44
4856888085	Chinese dynasties	Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing republic, Mao Zedong	45
4856888086	Ancient china was based off what river	Huang he	46
4856888087	China was developed in	Isolation	47
4856888088	Shang dynasty emerged when	c. 1500 BCE	48
4856888089	Chinese cities were surround by	earth walls	49
4856888090	Filial piote	Family at the center of society,to be good to one's parents and to take care of one's parents	50
4856888091	How did family go in china	Father, older son, younger son, mom, daughter	51
4856888092	Women were _______________ in china	Subordinate	52
4856888093	Chinese believe that spirits of the ___________ can bring __________ _______ ____ _______	family ancestors, good fortune and luck	53
4856888094	The Shang dynasty is known for	Silk, oracle bones, bronze	54
4856888095	Mandate of heaven	A political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source	55
4856888096	The olmec lived where and when did they start	Mesa-America in dance tropical forests, c.1400-400 BCE	56
4856888097	Omelet had several what	City states with a common culture	57
4856888098	Did the olmecs have social hierarchy, if so who was at top	Yes, the chieftains	58
4856888099	Laborers were forced to build what in the olmec civilization	Temples and palaces	59
4856888100	What was the olmec religion	Polytheistic, gods are a blend of animal, human	60
4856888101	Shamans organized what in the olmec civilization	religious ceremonies	61
4856888102	Religion in sumar led to the development of a	Writing system and calendar system	62
4856888103	What are some examples of olmec art	Olmec heads, pyramids and temple mounds, jaguars	63
4856888104	Norte chico society began where and when	In pure about 3000-1800 BCE	64
4856888105	Norte chico is famous for its	Architecture and use of the quipu for records keeping	65
4856888106	Legacy of ancient civilizations is	Writing systems, technology,	66
4856888107	When did ancient civilizations begin to decline	1000 BCE	67
4856888108	Why did ancient civilizations begin to decline	Nomadic tribes	68
4856888109	Political and cultural centers shift to new locations exept in	China	69